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Kristy Tiampo
Director of CIRES Earth Science & Observation Center (ESOC) and Professor

I received my BSc in Civil Engineering from Tufts University, USA, and an MSc in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, USA. I obtained a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, after practicing as a construction engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers for almost 10 years, during which time I obtained my certification as a Professional Engineer. In 2003 I was appointed Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Western University, Canada, and was the NSERC and Aon Benfield/ICLR Industrial Research Chair in Earthquake Hazard from 2006 through 2011.

Geological Sciences
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000
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Adriana Alfaro
Graduate Student Researcher

I am a veteran and first year masters student working with Kristy Tiampo and Mike Willis on a geohazards project in Greenland. Much of my undergraduate work is related to coastal geohazards and resilience methods. After my active military service, I graduated with my undergraduate degree and continued on to NOAA. I completed a 6 month internship at NOAA's CO-OP division and worked on many systems like the acoustic doppler current profile to validate their accuracy in obtaining meteorological and oceanographic data. In the future I hope to intersect my interests in the testing and evaluation of these systems and coastal geohazards.

Geology, ESOC/ CIRES

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Magali Barba
Graduate Student Researcher

Geology/ CIRES-ESOC
MS, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | BA, University of California, Berkeley
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Ryan Cassotto
Research Scientist

My research focuses on geophysical deformation of the shallow earth. I use a suite of satellite and terrestrial remote sensing platforms to characterize surface variations to gain a better understanding of the underlying geophysical processes that drive these changes. Recent projects include the impact of a granular proglacial ice mélange on tidewater glacier calving, the influence of perennial firn aquifers on tidewater glacier dynamics, and the relationship between cascading natural hazards (drought, wildfire, precipitation events, landslides) and climate change.

ESOC
PhD. Earth and Environmental Sciences M.S. Earth Science B.S. Electronic Engineering Technology
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Phillip Choi
Undergraduate Researcher

Phillip Choi (he/him) is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in physics. Since 2021, he's worked with faculty at the University of Colorado to develop Differential InSAR methods in order to observe landslides and deformations on the coast of Greenland, and create a map of ground velocity movements throughout this region. He hopes to attend a graduate program in geodesy or surface processes

University of Pennsylvania
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Brie Corsa
Graduate Student Researcher

Current Research:

ESOC, CIRES
BS Geophysics from Boise State University and currently a PhD Research Assistant at CU Boulder
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Jasmine Hansen
Graduate Student Researcher

Jasmine is a fifth year PhD student working in the polar regions on the interactions between ice mass changes and the underlying crust and mantle. She utilizes digital elevation model time-series data, derived from optical remote sensing satellites, combined with ground and satellite geophysical methods such as GPS, InSAR and GRACE.

As well as using remotely sensed data she has spent the last few summer field seasons working in the arctic in Alaska and Greenland on a variety of different projects. Notably she has worked on catastrophic glacier collapse deposits in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska, and on iceberg sediment sampling in the Godthab Fjord system in SW Greenland.

ESOC
BSc (Hons) Geology University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Joel Johnson
Graduate Student Researcher

Joel is a second year PhD student in Geophysics at CU Boulder. He was a McNair scholar at Boise State University, where he studied Geology and Applied Mathematics. His research interests include remote sensing of subsidence and determining what role it has played in recent flooding events, particularly relating to coastal megacities. Joel conducts research using Satellite radar and high resolution optical imagery. When not conducting research, Joel reads for fun and collects hobbies.

Geology/ CIRES-ESOC

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Cole Lombardi
Graduate Student Researcher

I’m a first year PhD student currently working with Kristy Tiampo on a project related to landslide hazard in Greenland. I received my bachelors from Tufts University in geological sciences and have spent time conducting research near Christchurch, New Zealand. In the future I’m especially excited to possibly apply what I learn from my current project to volcanic hazard research.

Geological Sciences
BA Tufts
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Lingcao Huang
Post-doc Fellow

Lingcao Huang works with Kevin Schaefer, Kristy Tiampo, and Michael Willis on a project using machine learning to automatically quantify the development of retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) whose formation is due to the thawing the ice-rich permafrost. Retrogressive thaw slumps are the most dynamic landforms in cold regions and in which thaw of ice-rich permafrost on slopes causes mass-wasting of soil and vegetation. As reported by many local studies, their number and affected areas have increased dramatically in recent decades.

CIRES / ESOC
Chinese University of Hong Kong Post-doctoral
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Elizabeth Menezes
Graduate Student Researcher

I graduated in 2018 with a B.S. in Geophysics at the University of Texas, Austin. Then, I spent 2 years working in the petroleum industry. The first year, I was a field engineer in South Texas working on rigs in the Eagle Ford Basin and the second year I was a geosteering geoscientist in Norway working with rigs stationed offshore in the North Sea.

Geology/ CIRES-ESOC

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Teodora Mitroi
Graduate Student Researcher

I am interested in how climate change triggers a series of natural hazards such as severe precipitation, landslides, and tsunamis and how we can use remote sensing to understand and forecast them.

Geology/ CIRES-ESOC

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Clay Woods
Graduate Student Researcher

ESOC

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Mylène Jacquemart
Research Affiliate

I am interested in all the ways climate change influences the hazard disposition in the world's mountains and how we can use satellite and ground based remote sensing techniques to better understand and forecast these changes.

Geology/ CIRES-ESOC
Msc. in Geography/Remote Sensing, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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